"Refugees have no choice. You do." Was the theme for World Refugee Day, June 20th 2012. According to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, every minute, eight people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution or terror.

There are more than 42 million forcibly displaced people around the world.

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the numbers represent far more than statistics; they are individuals and families whose lives have been up-ended, whose communities have been destroyed, and whose future remains uncertain.

At least 57 people including a chief and his family have been confirmed killed in a suspected Murle youth revenge attack Wednesday night on Uror County in Jonglei State, the Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin has told AFP.

The minister says 11 men were killied in the attack, the remainder being women and children.

Speaking to Radio Miraya on Thursday, the Uror County Commissioner Simon Hoth Dol said two remote villages of Wek and Payok in the county were the targets of the armed attackers.

The government of Sudan has postponed the hand over of 900 unaccompanied South Sudanese children until July next year.

Sudan Secretary General for Child Welfare Council, Gamar Habbani told the press on Sunday, that the decision was reached during a meeting with the government of South Sudan. The meeting also discussed the state of the children and resolved to suspend their repartriation to pave way for more coordination.

Habani said the children will be handed to South Sudan according to international standards.

Eighty female inmates who were being held in Omdurman Women's Prison in Sudan have been released, the minister of information and broadcasting, Barnaba Mariala Benjamin has said.

The women from South Sudan were jailed for brewing alcohol, which is illegal in Sudan.

Speaking to the media after the Council of Ministers meeting on Friday, Marial explained that the release was in response to a letter written by president of the republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, asking his counterpart in Sudan, Omar al Barshir, to release South Sudanese prisoners in Sudan.

Three children abducted in 2010 from Central Equatoria's Magala Payam have been found in Jonglei state. Central Equatoria state's Dircetor of Child Welfare, Martin Mogga, told Radio Miraya on Wednesday that the state has requested UNICEF to retrieve the children from Dok in Jonglei so that they can be reunited with their families.

He urged the state government to deploy police to Liria, Wunduruba and other areas where currently there is no police to provide security.